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  	                       A CONVINCING INVESTIGATION 

  	    While I have testified to those around me and in many
30	localities, of my healing in Christian Science, I feel that
 1	it is high time I put the candle in the candlestick where
  	all who will may see. My earliest recollection was a day
 3	of suffering, — a physical inheritance from my mother,
  	which gave simple interest for a time until years ad-
  	vanced and compound interest was added. My father
 6	was a physician, and material remedies were used for
  	my mother without avail, consequently his confidence
  	in them for me was shaken, — in fact he often told me
 9	it was better to suffer without medicine than become a
  	chronic doser, without pain. 
  	    I began teaching in early life and continued for more
12	than twenty years, and during that time not a day passed
  	without pain, or fear of pain, and only for my innate
  	love of life it would have become an intolerable burden. 
15	For five years oatmeal was my chief food and I became
  	almost as attached to it as Kaspar Hauser to his crust. 
  	I was early taught to have faith in God, and many times
18	was relieved of pain only to have it appear again in an
  	aggravated form. 
  	    At last my heart cried out for the living God, and
21	the answer came by one of His messengers, who told
  	me of Christian Science. I replied that I believed God
  	could heal, but that I had no faith in the healing of Chris-
24	tian Scie...nce, but would like to investigate its theology,
  	as it might aid in giving me some clue to the meaning
  	of life. For three years I had searched the works of
27	the most scientific writers to find the origin of life; many
  	times I would think I had traced it to the beginning,
  	but it would elude my grasp every time. One day in
30	talking with my friend, she said she would like to loan
  	me the textbook, Science and Health, which I very will-
  	ingly accepted. Not long afterward I felt a severe
 1	attack of suffering. I opened the book for the first
  	time and found a paragraph near the middle which
 3	attracted my attention. I read the same paragraph over
  	and over for nearly two hours. When the tea bell rang
  	I closed the book and I shall never forget my per-
 6	ception of the new heaven and the new earth, — every-
  	thing in nature that I could see seemed to have been
  	washed and made clean. The flowers that I have
 9	always loved so much, and that from childhood had
  	told me such sweet stories, now spoke to me of the
  	All-in-all, the hearts of my friends seemed kinder, — I
12	had touched the hem of the garment of healing. 
  	    I ate my supper that evening forgetful of the prepa-
  	rations I had made for suffering, and when the next
15	day began I was more zealous of good work than ever
  	before. Since closing Science and Health at my first
  	reading I have never been able to find the paragraph
18	which I had read so many times over, the words seemed
  	to have slipped away from me, but my joy knew no
  	bounds at having found the pearl of great price. By
21	the continued reading of the book I was entirely
  	healed, and for fourteen years I have not seen a day
  	of physical suffering. — Miss L. M., Rome, N. Y. 
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